International Postage Meter Stamp Catalog/Colombia

Nearly all Colombian meter stamps contain a license number (with prefix LIC or L.C.) rather than a meter number. Later meters, especially the Pitney Bowes, displayed both. A few stamps are found with identical license and meter numbers.

Some stamps are designed specifically for airmail with "AEREO" inside the frank (Types A4, A5, A9, etc) and others for surface mail use with "COMUNICACIONES" inside the frank (Types A1-A3). The airmail stamps are printed in red while the surface stamps are printed in blue. Occasionally the two types of stamps are found on the same mail piece.

b. Provisional stamp sold over the counter as mint postage at various post offices during periods of stamp shortages caused by rapid inflation between 1981 and 1985. The stamps are always on tape, never dated, and denominated in round numbers, 50, 100, etc.

B2. Pitney Bowes “DM” (LV-21), 1956.

Similar to Type B1 but much smaller.

M# without prefix.

TM: SC

Values: 01 to 21 0.10 to 2.00

a. Post Office stamp, with “C” and ”N” at sides of TM

B3. Pitney Bowes “5000” (MV).

Very similar to type B1, but wider value box.

A. Value figures of variable thickness

B. Value figures of uniform thickness

TM: SC

V/F: 0000 ≋0.00 000oo

B4. Pitney Bowes ”6500” (MV).

Very similar to Type B3 but with “CORREOS DE/ COLOMBIA” and value box wider, variable in width from 21 to 26 mm.

A. Value figures of variable thickness

B. Value figures of uniform thickness

TM: DC, SC

V/F: ≋000oo 0.000oo 0000.oo 0,000.oo

B5. Pitney Bowes-GB “5000” (MV).

Similar to Type B3 but larger with DC TM.

A. Value box 18 mm wide

B. Value box 21 mm wide

C. Value box 23 mm wide

V/F: ≋0.00 ≋00.oo ≋.000oo

B6. Pitney Bowes “6300” (MV).

Similar to earlier Pitney Bowes types but value figures on same level as date figures rather than lower as on Types B1-B5.